Manager Direct Materials Category Procurement

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At PMI, we've chosen to do something incredible. We're totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose - to deliver a smoke-free future.

With huge change comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you'll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

Wherever you join our crucial 47,000-strong Operations team, you'll have the opportunity to make an impact. PMI's shift from selling cigarettes to our new smoke-free products has changed the way we work. New products bring new challenges - in the way we source and buy raw materials, in the way we engineer and manufacture, and in our supply chain planning.

Bring us your curiosity and a desire to challenge the everyday, and we'll give you lots of responsibility. You'll help us improve, inject innovation, and create new ways of working.

We are now recruiting for a new Manager Direct Materials Category Procurement, within our high performing Procurement team based in Lausanne, Switzerland!

Your purpose -

As a Direct Material Procurement Manager, you develop, lead and drive global strategic sourcing categories. Your mission is to enable innovation, sustainability, and cost & cash efficiency while strengthening supplier partnerships and enabling our smoke-free transformation.

• Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Relationship Management: Shape and lead long-term strategies for direct materials, leveraging market intelligence and evolving sourcing models. Drive strategic supplier selection, relationship governance, complex tendering, and high-impact negotiations to enable sustained value.
• Supplier Ecosystem Management: Build resilient supplier networks and implement performance metrics to ensure agility and quality.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Supply Chain, Quality, Product development, Manufacturing and other departments to align procurement strategies with operational goals, and identify cost, product & process improvement opportunities.
• Sustainability & Innovation: Champion responsible sourcing and supplier engagement on ESG topics including human rights, environmental impact, and business integrity. Co-develop forward-looking material solutions that meet sustainability targets and evolving consumer expectations.
• Oversee operational tasks and tactical initiatives across the category, including supplier onboarding, raw material availability, data integrity, market share tracking, risk buying, and other day to day activities.

• Hybrid Value Creation: The role blends category management with project leadership, allowing for dynamic engagement across strategic and operational domains.
• Global Impact: Work within a matrixed organization spanning all PMI regions with exposure to global procurement hubs and direct contact with Procurement Senior leadership.
• Talent Development Pathway: Clear progression into senior procurement roles supported by structured mentorship and direct engagement with senior Operations leadership.

• Holds a degree in Business, Engineering, or Supply Chain, with a foundation built for global impact.
• Brings 10 years of progressive experience in procurement and adjacent functions, ready to scale into leadership.
• Proven ability in supplier strategy, category ownership, and cross-functional influence.
• Strong in data-driven decision-making, project management skills, and stakeholder engagement.
• Proven communication and storytelling skills.
• Fluent in English, with multilingual capabilities as a growth asset.
• Skilled in MS Office and adaptable to advanced procurement systems.

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We'll empower you to do things differently, experiment and explore.
• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone's contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world's best people and feel like you belong.
• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business - our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to create a smoke free future.